Word: discreditment
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...counterrevolutionary groups in Honduras to increase their attacks upon Miskito Indian villages in the border region, the inhabitants of the area were relocated to communities in the interior. Schools, health clinics, potable water have all been provided. Reagan Administration spokesmen, however, continue to call this repression so as to discredit Nicaragua and further justify U.S. support to the tottering government of El Salvador...
...French Socialists took advantage of the Communists' contradictory positions to try to discredit their junior partners, who lost almost half of their parliamentary seats in last year's elections. "Arrest Marchais-not Walesa," one Socialist loudspeaker trumpeted during a pro-Solidarity demonstration. Nor has the Communist Party's pro-Soviet attitude gone down well with the rank and file in France. A number of town and city councils, either dominated by or including Communist members, have passed resolutions backing Solidarity. In the giant 2.3 million strong Communist-led Confédération...
...workers accused of organizing strikes in defiance of martial law. Some of them have already received jail terms of up to seven years, although five were acquitted after their own factory managers and foremen refuted the prosecutor's charges. Meanwhile, a systematic campaign is under way to discredit intellectuals who supported Solidarity...
...directed to provide students with the evidence for the sudden creation of the universe out of nothing. Overton found that concept wholly religious. Perhaps mindful of a poll showing that 76% of the U.S. public favors the teaching of both theories, the judge was careful not to "criticize or discredit any person's testimony based on his or her religious beliefs." But, he noted, no group may use government agencies "to foist its religious beliefs on others...
...President that the dream is going sour," declared Minnesota Republican Senator David Durenberger, one of several guest speakers. "The tax cut has made it more difficult to finance state and local government. One more round of this New Federalism-conducted in the frenzy of the budget process-will discredit the concept entirely...